try man -P cat man

where you are looking at the man page for man.  Maybe you can feed that to a braille reader if you need to do more.


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:40 PM, eric oyen <eric.oyen@gmail.com> wrote:
there is still the problem of the one line at the bottom of the terminal window that doesn't move. it causes the cursor on my braille sense U2 to end there instead of reading the rest of the page beyond that point without manually scrolling up and back with the arrow keys on a regular keyboard. I have also encountered this issue when reading long text files using more or less.

-eric

On Aug 27, 2013, at 4:16 PM, JD Austin wrote:

> You can change the man pager with the man -P <command> directive.
> eg: man -P more less
>
> Find a file reader in linux you like better and then alias it to man:
> alias man='man -P more'
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:07 PM, eric oyen <eric.oyen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> such ideas are often born of necessity. In my case, I need to be able to
>> read man pages and they don't quite read right with a screen reader.
>>
>> -eric
>>
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